Free at last to pursue his obsession with metamorphosis, his amorality leads him down darker and darker paths.

Just how far will he go to achieve his goal?

And will he get his come-uppance?

Metamorphosis is currently only available in a Kindle edition.

Remember, though, that you don’t need a Kindle to read this book, since the Kindle edition can also be read using Kindle software and apps on many other devices (e.g. PCs, iPhones, Android phones, tablets).

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These poems focus on a variety of themes related to most people’s least favorite season – holidays (e.g. you’ll find a few Christmas poems) and other special days, sporting events, foods and, of course, the weather.

As with all our poems, they are 100% fresh and original, and as you may surmise from the title of this book, there is one winter poem for each letter of the alphabet, so here is the full list of all 26 titles:

A Is For Avalanche Warning

B Is For Blizzard

C Is For Comforters

D Is For Diet Time

E Is For Earmuffs

F Is For Flannel Pajamas

G Is For Garlands

H Is For Hot Chocolate

I Is For Ice Skating

J Is For January First

K Is For Komatiks

L Is For Lavender

M Is For March Madness

N Is For NFL Play-Offs Month

O Is For Overcoat

P Is For Pecan Pie

Q Is For Question Mark

R Is For Red Velvet Cakes

S Is For Snowball Fights

T Is For Thermal Underwear

U Is For Unrelenting Winds

V Is For Valentine Gifts

W Is For Winter Olympics

X Is For Xmas Presents

Y Is For Youngsters

Z Is For Zucchini Loaf

There is also one bonus poem, entitled “Helping Hands“:

Having fun at Christmas is what most people expect
Except many others suffer from need and neglect
Like those who have no home and no family at all
Perhaps losing their job was the cause of their downfall
It may be they’re old, deserted, and totally alone
Not just humans either, pets too may be on their own
Got to wonder what these folks think of at Christmas time
Hard to imagine, but ignoring them is a crime
And so why not lend a hand? It needn’t cost a lot
No doubt it’s a gesture that will never be forgot
Do a stint at the soup kitchen, or rescue a pet
Share your Christmas meal with a veteran, better yet

This collection of winter poetry is currently available in two editions – paperback and Kindle.

The paperback edition makes a perfect gift to send to family members and friends, and remember you can have it gift-wrapped if you want.

Don’t forget too that the Kindle edition can be read not only on the Amazon Kindle devices, but also on Kindle software on many other devices (e.g. PCs, iPhones, Android phones, tablets).

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Paperback Edition

Kindle Edition

PS This is the tenth in our series of A-Z poetry books, the previous one being the recently-published A-Z Of Cats. To be notified automatically when we publish future books, please sign up for our Newsletter, using the form near the top right of this page.

Michael Thomson is a young man with a secret perversion he inherited from his father.

In his quest to satisfy his deviant urges, he takes more and more risks, until one day, he makes a mistake.

Will the women he’s humiliated discover his identity and get their revenge?

Snatch & Grab: Revenge Season is currently only available in a Kindle edition.

Remember, though, that you don’t need a Kindle to read this book, since the Kindle edition can also be read using Kindle software and apps on many other devices (e.g. PCs, iPhones, Android phones, tablets).

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This version, which goes by the name Pena de Morte in Portuguese, is available from all the usual Amazon sites, including Amazon.com, as well as, of course, the new Amazon.com.br.

Look out for other non-English editions of this short story soon – for example, we have a (Latin American) Spanish version in the works. Sign up to our Newsletter to be notified automatically when these new versions are available.

We assume you guessed correctly that this story’s about a boxer! (If not, you need to go and watch those Rocky movies with Sylvester Stallone!)

Anyway, I Of The Tiger is about Dillon O’Boylan, a young boxer with a promising future and a chance at the world title.

However, his dreams are thrown into turmoil when he is told to throw the fight.

Will he stand up to the mobsters and risk his family’s lives, or will he take the easy way out and accept the bribe?

I Of The Tiger is currently only available in a Kindle edition.

Remember, though, that you don’t need a Kindle to read this book, since the Kindle edition can also be read using Kindle software and apps on many other devices (e.g. PCs, iPhones, Android phones, tablets).

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Note that the Kindle edition of Twisted Short Stories #3 – I Of The Tiger is also available from Amazon.co.uk.

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We do this to try to help out these writers, because we know how hard it is to be noticed in the tidal wave of new books that are published every single day.

The Life Of A Writer

Many people simply don’t realize what goes in to writing and publishing a book – after all, it takes a lot less time to read one than it does to create one.

For example, it has to start with an idea – something unique, something personal, something captivating.

Then there is the time that the author puts in to turning that idea into a finished product. And this doesn’t only include the writing, but all of the other activities that must be undertaken before their book can appear on Amazon’s vast virtual bookshelves.

Remember, being an indie author means that they are responsible for everything, including the editing, proofreading, formatting, cover design, and more. Big name authors who have big name publishing houses behind them will get much of this done for them, but the indie author has to be a master of all these trades – or pay somebody else to do it for them, without the benefits of huge advances on their royalties.

Many authors also have families, so every minute spent writing is a minute not spent with the people they love. There is a cost to this, and for many, balancing their writing time and their family time is difficult, not to mention the full-time job that many also have.

And then, once they’ve done all of that, they have to market their books too – no big corporate marketing department for them!

Now, you may be thinking that they do it for the money – after all, everybody knows that author such as Stephen King have made a lot of money from their books (and the film rights they negotiate too), but you may be surprised to learn that a lot of writers aren’t in it for that.

No, they only want to create something, to release a part of themselves into the world, to share their knowledge, their ideas, their fantasies, to entertain or educate. For some, it’s to do with loving the act of writing itself. Many writers put thousands and thousands of words down on paper, but never even publish their work.

But rest assured, the royalties they receive for each book sold is small.

And then there are the personal challenges.

The image of the writer sitting alone in his (or her) garret may be somewhat antiquated, but the fact is that it’s still a lonely life for many. Even if family is nearby, when authors are writing, they’re alone with their thoughts, their worries (will it be good enough, will people like it), and the risk of exposing just a tiny piece of their innermost self to people they will probably never ever meet. (It’s almost impossible not to include a part of you in any book you write.)

How We Try To Help

So, we try to help them by publicizing their works here, and on other sites – we are active on social media such as Facebook, we create video trailers for their books, and we do whatever else we can to help them succeed.

In essence, we try to let them focus on the writing, leaving us to worry about all of the other activities that most authors hate.

How You Can Help

So, as readers, what can you do to help your favourite authors?

First and foremost, you can rate their books and write reviews once you’ve finished reading them.

You don’t need to be a world-famous critic or have a Masters degree in English to do this, and it doesn’t even have to be long – you simply need to write an honest review that lets other potential readers know what you liked about the book (and what you didn’t like, if that also applies), but remember that writers are artists and are sensitive souls, so please keep things polite and fair.

To do this, you can either leave a comment on this blog, on the appropriate page for the book (e.g. on this page) or, preferably on Amazon itself, where you need to look for the Customer Review section of the page:

Next, and even easier, you can click the Like button that you’ll find on Amazon near the top of the page:

Thirdly, you can spread the word to your friends, family, Facebook friends, people who follow you on Twitter, work colleagues, etc. You can do this by writing a review or status update, posting a link (e.g. to our site or to Amazon), or by good old word of mouth.

Remember, you can Gift a copy of a Kindle book to somebody – look for the small orange button near the top right of the page. Our books are very reasonably priced, so won’t break the bank!

Most of the books we publish on behalf of our authors are also available as paperbacks, and these can, of course, be gift-wrapped and sent directly to family and friends as unusual presents.

Whatever you can do to help our authors succeed will be greatly appreciated, not least because it will give them the encouragement to continue doing what they so clearly love – writing.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. On behalf of our authors, we appreciate your support.

You may not even know you’ve been ripped off – unless you take the time and trouble to go searching for pirated copies.

We actually found a pirated copy of our own software, The Daily Goal Machine, and that was only by chance when we were looking for something else. How many more illegal copies are out there? Who knows?

So How Does This Online Piracy Work?

Well, typically, it goes something like this:

Someone purchases your product as though he were a legitimate customer.

He gains access to your product (e.g. a download link, a serial or licence number for your software, the password to your members’ area).

Then he cracks your product and uploads it to the Internet, to sites such as black hat forums, torrent sites, file-sharing directories, pirate blogs or elsewhere.

Hundreds of people then download your product for free!

And to add insult to injury, the original buyer then requests a refund!

So, not only do you lose the original sale (and if they paid by credit or debit card, you might actually end up out of pocket because of the processing fees you’ll be charged on both the sale and the refund), but you also lose hundreds of future sales because everybody is now downloading your product from the Internet – for free!

Yes, we appreciate this may sound like it’s all doom and gloom, but the reality is that this does happen, and it happens on a daily basis.

How Big A Problem Is Online Piracy?

And if you’re thinking that it’s not a particularly big problem, then think again! Recent studies have showed that millions of dollars are lost every single day to unauthorized downloads! Yes, you read that right – millions of dollars, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year!

Even if you could track down these illegal copies, there’s very little you, as the product owner, can do about it. Unless you have the computing power and skills of a TV CSI lab, the Internet is a very anonymous place, making it really hard to find whoever’s running these pirate sites.

And even if you do find the site owner, as most of us have neither the clout nor the legal department of a major company like Microsoft or Disney, complaining to them will rarely do much good anyway.

Sadly, most product vendors and self-publishers are completely defenseless against illegal file-sharing and free download sites.

The Good News

Yes, we do have some good news for you!

After searching for some time for a way to protect our intellectual property, whether it’s the software we mentioned earlier, or any of the books we publish, we’ve finally found a service that we believe offers everything you need at a price that’s a steal (pun intended).

The company is called ActiveDMCA, and what they do is track and hunt down websites that might be illegally distributing your product. In a nutshell, they go out to the search engines (e.g. Google), and they sniff around searching for keywords like “Your Product” + “download link”, “Your Product” + “serial number”, “Your Product” + “crack”, or “Your Product” + “free download”.

By conducting such searches (every single day of the year), both in Google and using their huge database of sites reported to be suspect, the people at ActiveDMCA can soon unearth where pirates are illegally distributing your products.

But they don’t stop there!

As soon as they track down any potential illegal download activity against any of the products you register with them, one of their expert “Take-Down Agents” springs into action.

They will investigate to confirm whether it really is a pirate site, and if it is, they will contact the site’s administrator, requesting they remove your product from their site. If that doesn’t work, they then escalate the issue to the site’s hosting company, domain registrar and payment processor, who will make sure the site admin complies – otherwise that site will soon be offline for good.

These Take-Down Agents will contact anybody and everybody who may be related to the pirate site, sending them an official and personalized DMCA Take-Down notice. This is a legal document who remit is to enforce the current Internet copyright laws.

The following short video explains further how the ActiveDMCA service works, and how it can help you protect your digital product against unauthorized sharing and downloads.

Visit the ActiveDMCA site today and find out how you can protect your products within minutes, and enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing you have a team of professionals watching your back, 365 days a year. Every day you delay you could be losing even more sales.

Update: As at 13 December 2012, one day after signing up for their service, ActiveDMCA have already found five pirated copies of our software, The Daily Goal Machine, and three of these have now been removed from the offending sites.

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